State v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

3 state decisions

Most-quoted passages

The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Defendant contends that he should receive the sentence he would have been able to receive if he had been able to be sentenced in Minnesota first. However, the North Dakota offenses were committed before the Minnesota offense, so it clearly was proper that defendant was sentenced in North Dakota first. * * * Further, there is no evidence that the prosecuting attorney manipulated the Guidelines to obtain a harsher sentence than was proper.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Ronning